Report on pharmacological aspects of occupational safety and health of deep sea divers supporting the offshore industry.

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  Pharmacological aspects of occupational safety and health of deep sea divers supporting offshore industries are discussed. Because of the depths and duration of dives required of divers working on the outer continental shelf, emergency medical services must be provided in such locales as: extreme depths, diving chambers, or on remotely located oil rigs. Little is known of the effects of commonly used medications upon the body at such depths. Developing broad overall protocols for studying drug interactions and pharmacology is extremely important to the offshore commercial diving industry. Drug problems associated with diving are enumerated. These include drugs present within the body at the start of a dive, drugs interacting with compression, drugs required for use at high pressures, drugs interacting with decompression, and drugs used in treating decompression sickness. Classes of drugs in which urgent research is needed for adequate management of health problems associated with diving are listed. The highest priority should be given to drugs used in emergency and life support situations, drugs used to produce anesthesia under hyperbaric conditions, and commonly used drugs and substances that cause adverse behavioral effects. A paper on drugs and diving is included. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no PDF
• Subjects:
  Environment Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Pharmacology; Physiological measurements; Industrial environment; Body regions; Environmental factors; Safety research; Safety measures; Body burden
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health ; Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America ; North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-25
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00155457
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB86191319
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1980 May; :1-25
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1980
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NIOSH, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Cincinnati, Ohio, Undersea Medical Society, Bethesda, Maryland, UMS Publication Number 39(CD), 25 pages, 11 References
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/242117/cdc_242117_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]